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Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Research Group

At the Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Research Group, we work on providing practical solutions to the problems in the broad area of civil engineering practice known as the Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering. We
collaborate with
several world-class universities, research institutions, industries and
individuals on academic and field projects.

Our focus

Our current
research focuses on several specific topics, such as geosynthetic applications
in civil and mining engineering projects, fibre-reinforced soils, slope
stability under static and dynamic loading conditions, engineered landfills,
burried structures, static and dynamic earth pressures, utilization of mine and
other wastes, pavement structures, and ground improvement techniques.

Our research success

We have recently developed many new engineering
concepts for applications in field projects. Reinforced soil is a composite
construction material formed by combining soil and reinforcement. Predicting
the strength behaviour of the fibre-reinforced soils has been a challenging
task for civil engineers since its development. This problem has been recently
solved by developing a simple mathematical model.

Analytical expressions for the total active and
passive thrusts from the backfills have been quite popular among engineers for
designing retaining structures since their development. In most real-life
projects, the backfills are c-f soils. Estimating
the dynamic active thrust on the retaining structures from such soil backfills
has not been possible by analytical methods considering both horizontal and
vertical seismic loadings. The research group has presented analytical
expressions for different field situations.